It’s not the bridge but the body of water it crosses turbulent dangerous

It’s not the crossing over but the moment suspended in air above water swift cold

It’s not the bridge but the choice to trust that old wood to hold you while you step and step again

It’s not the choice it’s the pushing off, lifting the feet, the moment when you could fall but you don’t

Lesley Strutt

Lesley Strutt is a Merrickville poet, essayist, novelist, playwright, blogger and professor. Her ancestral roots are Irish and she is a descendant of the Bard of Bytown - William Pitman Lett. Her poetry has appeared in anthologies, journals and e-zines. She recently edited If There is Somewhere to Go, the third collection of open reading poems published in the Living Archives series of the Feminist Caucus of the League of Canadian Poets, for which Susan McMaster was consulting editor.

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